Keila Hill-Trawick, CPA

Certified Public Accountant

Keila Hill-Trawick is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and owner at Little Fish Accounting, a CPA firm for small businesses in Washington, District of Columbia. With over 15 years of experience in accounting, Keila specializes in advising freelancers, solopreneurs, and small businesses in reaching their financial goals through tax preparation, financial accounting, bookkeeping, small business tax, financial advisory, and personal tax planning services. Keila spent over a decade in the government and private sector before founding Little Fish Accounting. She holds a BS in Accounting from Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business and an MBA from Mercer University - Stetson School of Business and Economics.

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How to

Write an Accounting Ledger

Keeping a ledger is one of the tenets of basic accounting. Ledgers allow the company to quickly view all transactions in an account at once. Fortunately, keeping a ledger is fairly simple, requiring you to log every fina...

How to

Write a Business Plan

If you’re interested in starting your own business, by now you probably know that writing a business plan is one of the first steps. But what should a business plan include? How detailed should it be? Do you need to do...

How to

Start a Movie Theater

Turn your love of cinema into a full-time job with this guide for aspiring entrepreneursThere are many options for opening a movie theater, including large corporate or franchise multiplexes, drive-in theaters, smaller a...

How to

Study for an Accounting Exam

An accounting exam can be tricky to prepare for. You cannot get by through memorization and ordering of individual bits of information, as you might be able to in a history class. However, you also cannot rely on a few a...

How to

Write a Business Plan for Internet Business

If you need additional investment or a loan from a bank to start your internet business, you've probably been told you need a business plan. But even if you're not planning something that sophisticated, a good business p...

How to

Read a Tax Return Transcript

If you need tax return information, you can get a tax return transcript from the IRS at no charge. Simply provide the IRS with basic identification information, such as your name and Social Security number, and let them ...

How to

Become an Entrepreneur

If you want to run your own business, you've come to the right page. Being an entrepreneur is a high-risk, high-reward position. It's full of stressful situations, sure, but it's also chock full of rewards and a sense o...

How to

Calculate Days in Inventory

Finding the days in inventory for your business will show you the average number of days it takes to sell your inventory. The lower the number you calculate, the better return on your assets you're getting. If you're not...

How to Start a Foster Home in Texas (Foster Parent & Group Home Application Process)

Are you hoping to make a difference in a child’s life? If you live in Texas, your help is sorely needed—in January 2019 alone, there were nearly 30,000 kids in the foster care system. Starting a foster home is defin...

How to

Account for Debt Forgiveness

Long-term debt instruments, unlike equity instruments, represent the conditions under which a borrower receives a loan, including a promise to repay it. Bonds, notes, and mortgages (the three most common types of long-te...

How to

How can I prepare for tax season?

Tax season can be stressful and complicated, but preparing ahead of time can really help make it easier. How do you do it though? In this video, certified public accountant Keila Hill-Trawick will walk you through the mo...